“I was discharged five days after and had three weeks to get well for Christmas,” she added.

“The new boobs took a bit off getting used to, smaller and flat with no nipples - weird, but a million times better than those cancerous ones!”

Ian paid tribute to Christine, saying she had dealt with everything “amazingly”.

He said: “The past 11 months have been so challenging as we had been planning our wedding for three years and all this happened with seven weeks to go. There is a 98 per cent chance that she will have other cancers and potentially she will be battling cancer for the rest of her life.